Varo, Inc.

Baird Corporation

Baird-atomic, Inc.

Robert M Burley

Thomas M Brennan

R Calvin Owen, Jr

Robert A Gallagher

There is provided an improved night vision goggle having a housing containing an objective lens assembly, an image intensifier tube, a collimator assembly, a splitter member, and a pair of afocal telescopes. The optical axis of the afocal telescopes are offset from the optical axis of the collimator and objective lens assemblies. A pair of achromatic doublet lens assemblies are mounted side-by-side on the exit side of the collimator and near the entrance pupils of the telescopes. The optical axes of the doublet lens assemblies are coaxial with the optical axes of the telescopes. The achromatic doublet lens assemblies thus collect light from a sub-diameter, decentered aperture of the collimator assembly, and correct axial chromatic aberration in the telescopes.

Night vision goggle with improved optical system

A night vision goggle system comprising a housing, an optical system accommodated therein and including a pair of eyepiece assemblies, with each assembly slidably mounted for interpupillary adjustment. The assemblies are respectively focusable. The optical system further includes an objective lens assembly, an image intensifier tube provided with concave-faced fiber optics, and a collimator lens assembly, all in axial alignment, and a splitter member. The objective, collimator and eyepiece assemblies feature prescription optics. The goggle system preferably is head mounted via a quick-release connection to a face mask provided with an adjustable strap assembly.

Night vision goggle system

A tapered or twisted fiber optic bundle having a unidirectional diffuser at an output face thereof defines a fiber optic bundle beam expander. In a viewing system, such a beam expander is provided at the output of an image intensifier tube for unidirectionally spreading rays of an amplified image in a horizontal direction for biocular viewing.

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Concord, MA, United States of America

Robert M Burley